Unsurprisingly, lots of people -- including vegetarians and vegans, of course, some of whom may or may not have accidentally sniffed up meat essences while snorting powdered substances through a makeshift plastic £5 tube -- are both baffled about the use of tallow in currency in 2016 and pissed off that the Bank of England decided to keep that particular detail so well-hidden for so long.

The special brand of meat eaters that have very little else to say beyond “Vegetables are bad” and "You don't make friends with salad", meanwhile, are reacting with unbridled joy.

“The new £5 notes contain animal fat in the form of tallow,” it reads. “This is unacceptable to millions of vegans & vegetarians in the U.K. We demand that you cease to use animal products in the production of currency that we have to use.” [Telegraph]